{"id":3805,"date":"2014-09-30T11:28:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T17:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/digitalservices\/?p=3003"},"modified":"2014-09-30T11:28:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T17:28:58","slug":"goodbye-corolla-goodbye-1890s-1900s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/2014\/09\/30\/goodbye-corolla-goodbye-1890s-1900s\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Corolla, Goodbye: 1890s-1900s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, the Crimson White<\/em> broke the news to campus that a longstanding publication, the school’s yearbook, is being discontinued<\/a>. The decision makes sense, financially, but with the loss of the Corolla, we will cease to have\u00a0an amazing ongoing record of our campus and our world.<\/p>\n

For the next couple of weeks, we’ll be highlighting Corollas of the past. Some of these have been digitized and are online in Acumen<\/a>; others have not been digitized (just photographed informally for these posts) but can be found in the reading room at Hoole Special Collections Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1893<\/h2>\n

These late 19th century yearbooks\u00a0were limited in technology, from our viewpoint, but that didn’t stop the staff from sharing their sense of humor. Check out the raison d’\u00eatre<\/em>\u00a0(reason for being) in the middle of the page:<\/p>\n

\"Corolla1893_01\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But, apparently,\u00a0this image\u00a0isn’t one of those funny things:<\/p>\n

\"Corolla1893_02\"<\/a><\/p>\n

According to our resident art major, this kind of iconography on the fraternities section page was relatively normal, as wacky\u00a0as eyeballs and dragons might seem to us now.<\/p>\n

Also normal: poetry!<\/p>\n

\"Corolla1893_03\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Lots of sports were already a part of campus life. Football was still pretty new, and the game was apparently a different animal back then. Check out the body types of these early football players:<\/p>\n

\"Corolla1893_04\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(For reference, they’d fit in pretty well with the stars\u00a0of the most recent X-Men<\/em> movie: the two Professor Xs, James McAvoy and Patrick Stewart, are 5’7″ and 5’10” respectively; Magnetos\u00a0Ian McKellan and Michael Fassbender are 5’11” and 6′.)<\/p>\n

The team average here is 5’8 1\/2″ at 155 lbs. (X-Men<\/em>‘s\u00a0Jennifer Lawrence, who is 5’9″, is the right height but on the small side, weight-wise.) They would’ve been\u00a0a little taller than the general population at the time.<\/p>\n

The current average for an NCAA Division I player is 6’1″ at 231 lbs.<\/p>\n

We also learn that football was an uncommon enough sport that UA\u00a0had to play whatever teams were available:<\/p>\n

\"Corolla1893_05\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, even back then, advertisements were an important part of yearbook sales.<\/p>\n

\"Corolla1893_06\"<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/h2>\n

1902<\/h2>\n

The students at the turn of the century were clearly of a different social class from modern students:<\/p>\n

\"Corolla1902_02\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But the\u00a0face of the typical UA student was changing\u00a0with the recent (1897) addition of women to the campus:<\/p>\n

\"Corolla1902_01\"<\/a> \"Corolla1902_04\"<\/a> \"Corolla1902_03\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As the image above shows, UA was also still a military school.<\/p>\n

\"Corolla1902_05\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But even that was changing. 1902 marked the last year UA would be considered a military institution.<\/p>\n

Though photographs were used to depict students, perhaps they were expensive enough to reproduce that the rest of the book featured drawings, including this one, playfully illustrating the track team:<\/p>\n

\"Corolla1902_06\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Stay tuned for upcoming posts that\u00a0feature volumes\u00a0from the 1920s and 1930s<\/a>, from the 1950s and 1960s<\/a>, and from the 1980s and 1990s<\/a>. You’ll see how new printing options and changing culture shifted both the look and the purpose of the college yearbook, including the Corolla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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